314 • M.
interrogation, Hollis affected not to remember having spent two years
in close proximity to a fellow British intelligence officer, a matter
that Wright interpreted as highly suspicious.–M–M. Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centrecode name for
the technique, extensively used during World War II, of recording the
conversations of prisoners through the use of concealed micro-
phones, usually in a specially prepared cell immediately after an in-
terrogation session.
MACARTNEY, WILFRED.In 1927 Wilfred Macartney was working
in the Lloyd’s insurance market and approached a broker, George
Monkland, for information about shipments of weapons to the Baltic.
Monkland reported him to AdmiralReginald Halland anMI5inves-
tigation showed that Macartney had passed a Royal Air Force manual
to a Russian employee of theAll-Russia Cooperative Society.Ma-
cartney, aCommunist Party of Great Britainmember who had
served underCompton Mackenzieduring World War I, was arrested
when he met a German contact, Georg Hansen. He was convicted of
offenses under theOfficial Secrets Actand sentenced to 10 years’
imprisonment. Upon his release, Macartney publishedWalls Have
Mouths(1936) andZigzag(1937) and volunteered for theInterna-
tional Brigadeto fight during the Spanish Civil War. He became
commandant of the British Battalion and was wounded in January
- After World War II Macartney was prosecuted a second time,
for collaborating with Eddie Chapman to publish his story as an MI5
double agent. On that occasion he escaped with a fine.
MCCOLL, SIR COLIN.Chief of theSecret Intelligence Service
(SIS) from 1988 to 1994, Colin McColl was son of a Shropshire gen-
eral practitioner and served in the army for a year between 1951 and
- He joined SIS in September 1956, having attended Shrewsbury
School and graduated from Queen’s College, Oxford. SIS sent him
to the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University
to learn Siamese in October 1957.